Albert Bandura

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Albert Bandura

• Manuela Villegas
• And
• Debi Smith

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Cognitivist

• Studied adolescent aggression.
• Studied the steps of modeling processes.
• Like most traditional behaviorists, Bandura
  says that punishment in whatever form does not
  work as well as reinforcement and, in fact, has a
  tendency to backfire on us.
• Albert Bandura argued that aggression in
  children is influenced by the reinforcement of
  family members, the media, and the environment.

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What Hes Known For

• Reciprocal determinism The world and a persons
  behavior cause each other.
• bobo doll studies

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Educational Impact

• Self-Regulation
• Self-observation keep tabs on ourself
• Judgment compare what we see with a standard
• Self-response do well - rewarding responses do
  bad - punishing responses

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Educational Impact continued

• The ideas behind self-regulation have been put
  into the Self-Control Therapy
• Behavioral charts
• Environmental planning
• Self-contracts
• Therapy has been successful with simple problems
  of habit such as smoking, overeating, and study
  habits.